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Having problems with your Canon PowerShot SD600 Digital Camera ?

Computer cannot detect Camera

\015 My computer does not detect my camera anymore. I cannot download pictures from my camera to computer. When camera is plugged into computer, none of the function buttons, including menu work. It appears to be frozen. The camera continues to take pictures and I am able to print up the pictures, I just cannot download them.\015

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I just experienced this problem and went round in circles for a few hours before stumbling on the solution. My camera, a Sony Cybershot, has 4 USB Connect modes in the Setup menu: PictBridge, PTP, Mass Storage, and Auto. The only mode that would work to bring up the Camera Wizard screen on an XP computer was PTP. Once I changed the setting from Auto to PTP, the camera was recognized and able to connect to the computer. Somehow this setting had got changed to Auto or Mass Storage and that evidently causes a problem such that XP does not recognize the camera.

I had the same problem and went to Canon's website and upgraded to the most recent version 6.1 of Zoombrowser EX. It started working immediately. If it doesn't work then uninstall the software, make sure it doesn't show up in device manager then reinstall the original software. Plug in the camera and see if you get the error. If so reinstall the most recent version and I'll bet it works

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